dc.contributor.author
Rüden, Constance von
dc.date.accessioned
2012-08-08T08:04:52Z
dc.date.available
2022-08-26T08:04:52Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35980
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35695
dc.description.abstract
This plea for a critical archaeology begins with Walter Benjamin's reflection on the relationship between the present day and the construction of the past. From there it develops some thoughts about the impact of current political, economic and social interests as well as prevailing Lebenswelten on our views of history. Despite the experiences with German archaeology during the Third Reich, such an approach has received comparatively little attention. Rather, in the postwar period there was a tendency to take refuge in a mostly positivist and thus supposedly apolitical, objective archaeology, which raised decontextualized knowledge production to the status of dogma without exposing it as the result of a modernist ideology or recognizing political praxis in both archaeology and other disciplines. In my opinion the subject of a critical archaeology should be the production of archaeological knowledge and the calling into question of the present-day constructions and categorizations of our late-capitalist, neo-liberal world. It is not about producing better, more reliable knowledge. Rather, it is about the emergence of a critical consciousness with regard to the social foundations of knowledge and the highlighting of new alternative and previously non-dominant discourses. Some examples of spheres of archaeological knowledge production that would be worth investigating are touched upon in order to speak in favor of a critical archaeology that makes these important issues its central task.
en
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject
Kritische Archäologie
de
dc.subject
Critical Archaeology
en
dc.subject.ddc
900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::901 Geschichtsphilosophie, Geschichtstheorie
dc.subject.ddc
900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
dc.title
Der Tigersprung ins Vergangene – ein Plädoyer für eine Kritische Archäologie
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dc.title.translated
Skyrocketing Into the Past – A Plea for a Critical Archaeology
en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.6105/journal.fka.2012.1.8
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Forum Kritische Archäologie
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
52
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
56
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
1 (Diskussion: Was ist eine kritische Archäologie)
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://www.kritischearchaeologie.de/ausgaben.php#fka1
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2194-346X